Visual Studio 2012 debugger - A remote operation is taking longer than expected

A remote operation is taking longer than expected. 

I received that error while attempting to run my newly started Windows Forms project in Visual Studio 2012.  I've had VS 2012 for several months, and had never run into that problem. I searched the internet for solutions, and decided to repair VS 2012 by using the repair option on the install disk. That took about an hour and did not fix the problem. 

I tried a WPF project.  That gave me the same error.  I tried starting the project without debugging, then attaching the debugger to the process.  That didn't work because the processes wouldn't come up.

I decided to try a native application.  So I tried one of my MFC apps.  That worked.  It had no problem with the debugger. So the problem seemed related to the dot net framework. 

Then I remembered that my last project dealt with Windows Sockets.  And I had installed many network monitoring programs in an attempt to reverse engineer the protocol used by a DVR.  So I uninstalled all that software.  It was something like 6 programs-- URL Sniffer-- things like that.

That fixed it.  I restarted VS 2012 after uninstalling those programs, and it debugged fine.  It's a real bugger when you get a bug in your debugger.

This is the real solution.